Gwen Bautista is a curator and an art writer based in Manila, Philippines. She is an alumna of Para Site’s Workshops for Emerging Arts Professionals in Hong Kong and a fellow of the EDI Global platform organised by Fondazione Morra Greco in Naples. She was a finalist at the Ateneo Art Awards, Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prizes in Art Criticism (2019) and is the Director of the Manila-based contemporary art space MONO8. Gwen represents Artvisor in South East Asia and curated the exhibition “Under construction. Manila Today” for Artvisor in London in 2018.